Re: What about programming
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Pat Mahoney wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 11:24:45PM +0800, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > During a discussion on #debian-jr with Anne, Ben, Georges and myself
> > we fall - as techno people we are - in a discussion about including
> > programming language in Debian-JR
> > We talk about Logo, Scheme, Basic , Python.
>
> I think these are great, especially logo. Are there any nice
> beginners tutorials for these languages that we could include? I loved
> logo because you can do so many neat things graphically.
My husband and I are currently looking at producing a nice graphical
front-end to ucblogo using wxWindows. The concept's *reasonably* well
sorted, but I am a bit short on spare time at the moment, what with a
PhD thesis to write and all.
> In the future, I hope to get some Lego Mindstorms, which are
> programmable legos. There are several ways to program for the
> Mindstorms, and I know at least one, nqc (not quite c) is in debian and
> can compile for the Mindstorms. (Actually, it compiles for the "RCX"
> which is the "programmable brick" that goes between the computer and
> the legos.)
We already have a set of mindstorms lego, and were thinking of attempting
to build a logo "turtle" using them. I can't remember off-hand whether my
husband said he'd found instructions for doing this somewhere on the web,
or whether it's something that'll have to be designed. Whatever, this
could be quite fun ;-)
Diana.
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